🔊Stage 2 will remain until 5am on Sunday, but load shedding will thereafter be suspended again. 💡🕯️
Eskom availability…— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa confirmed on Thursday load shedding was more likely to happen in the cold season due to the increased demand for electricity.
According to Ramokgopa, the Energy Availability Factor was currently at about 53%, which explains the deficit gap between demand and supply.” have to be made in order to address the shortfall of 6 000MW in generation capacity and pointed out that there were options available for Cabinet to decide on.The minister also highlighted that the underperformance of Eskom’s power stations was causing the open-cycle gas turbines to be operated at a much higher rate.
The OCGTs were running at a great expense to the country because Eskom was consuming a lot of diesel. “They come at a great cost… there’s a question to the fiscus [regarding] the actual amount that you use to buy diesel and then there’s the cost of not running them to the South African economy. These are difficult choices that are confronting us,” Ramokgopa said.
South Africa’s peak demand is usually between 5.30am and 8am as well as between 6pm and 8pm daily, while it plateaus during the day.
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